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Ecclesiastes 1:7 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. To the place where the rivers flow, there they flow again. "

Ecclesiastes 1:7

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5 The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hurries to its place where it rises.

6 The wind goes toward the south, and turns around to the north. It turns around continually as it goes, and the wind returns again to its courses.

7 All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. To the place where the rivers flow, there they flow again.

8 All things are full of weariness beyond uttering. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

9 That which has been is that which shall be, and that which has been done is that which shall be done; and there is no new thing under the sun.

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Sirach 40:11

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"All things that are of the earth turn to the earth again. All things that are of the waters return into the sea."

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Job 14:11

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"As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes and dries up,"

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Isaiah 19:5

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"The waters will fail from the sea, and the river will be wasted and become dry."

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Job 12:15

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"Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth."

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Judith 2:8

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"Their slain will fill their valleys and brooks, and the river will be filled with their dead until it overflows."

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Genesis 1:9

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"God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;” and it was so."

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From This Chapter

Ecclesiastes 1:1

"The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem:"

Ecclesiastes 1:2

"“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”"

Ecclesiastes 1:3

"What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?"

Ecclesiastes 1:4

"One generation goes, and another generation comes; but the earth remains forever."

Ecclesiastes 1:5

"The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hurries to its place where it rises."

Ecclesiastes 1:6

"The wind goes toward the south, and turns around to the north. It turns around continually as it goes, and the wind returns again to its courses."

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